Star Wars Rebels "Trails of the Darksaber" Poll!

I like the history and everything about it other than the shape of the blade but not to the extent that it bothers me when watching. The sound effect can also grate a little but it's not as annoying/hilarious as the inquisitors Mary Poppins helicopter blades.

I Enjoy the color and the lightning, but the shape is, like Eric said, poopy. (We can all agree the helicopter inquisitors were way worse)

I agree with Eric, although the flying inquisitors bother me more.

Ky McKenna

I don't mind the look of the Saber. I wouldn't say I like it but it defiantly doesn't take me out of the episode. I do like the look of the Hilt and the blade looks neat however I don't care for the colour or the effect it gives off

Thedeadman97

It is a great design. It actually look like a sword. All the other lightsabers are cool but they are sticks with different hilt.

it's the Broly of lightsabers "it's so cool, but it's so dumb" XD

Belrevan

I think that it's a excellent alternative to the 'traditional' lightsaber that we've always known and loved. Absolutely get where Eric is coming from but I personally think that it's pretty damm cool =)

love it :D

I've enjoyed the design of the dark saber since the The Clone Wars. Loved the history we got behind it in this episode.

Abdul Bhutta

I love the whole thing, save for its length. I want it to be longer. But that's looking for something to dislike about it. And I can see the appeal of having it different in every way. It's more like a shoto-saber than a full-length lightsaber. I've always thought the black looks cool, and defying science doesn't bother me when you live in a world with the Force. Science kind of goes out the window. As Eric Foreman once said: "It's Star Wars. You either buy it, or you don't!"

Darth Skhorrn

I like the color of the blade, I hate the shape of the blade

Belrevan

Well, if you want to get technical/scientific, there are two ways we see colours. There's wavelengths of light that emit certain colours because we're only looking at the part of the wavelength for 1 colour. And then there's pigments that give off a colour for any wavelengths of light that aren't absorbed(white is reflecting all the wavelengths, while black is absorbing it all). There is one way the saber could be black. If all lightsabers emit white light, but get their colour from pigments in some kind of(maybe plasma)particles emitted/expelled by the lightsaber either as waste or necessary part of the blade, then theoretically one that didn't reflect any light might appear black. That's the best I can think of to retcon it.

Todd “Canuck” Schmuck

As cool as the addition to its lore this week was it has never made sense to me as far as the color and blade shape. As to the effect it could use some fine tuning but it could be worse I suppose. Plus it is supposed to be a lightsaber and black as a color is by definition the absence of or complete absorption of light so how would it manage to have an effect that glows, or for that matter is even possible. I know many purists that abhor its inclusion in the lore. Doesn't bother me that much but doesn't make any sense either.

Ben Brusell

I like the blade coloring, but I dislike the hilt design and shape of the blade.

Andrew Reise

As much as I enjoy yous guy's theories on how it could work, I just can't get over how it looks poopy to me. And I'm allowed to think it's poopy. Vote poopy! - Eric

Blind Wave

I also have to add that the white lightning effect might have have something to due with the fact that its 1. Really old (1000 years) 2. its clearly a different design then normal lightsabers (Yes I know in Clone Wars it was meant to be a vibro blade) given its length and obvious shape. and 3. Its odd color possibly cracked/damaged/corrupted kyber Crystal...The last one is due to the new lore on how kyber crystal's choose their color via their owner. Being the first Mando'a to become a jedi has its issues, from what we know Mandalorian's used to be a very war driven culture, (discounting legends) meaning that the only thing worse then Mandalorians from a jedi point of view would be the sith themselves....So having a Mandalorian Jedi probably took some real fancy maneuvering one of witch might have resulted in Tal Vizla getting stuck with a broken crystal and due to his history getting the color black. (even though its a value not a color). Either way I think its a very interesting story that I want to be told one day...and while all of this might help explain the lightning effect and the color...there is absolutely no rhyme or reason for that stupid shape..xD

Black is a value, and if you notice, its not the thing glowing the light bending around the blade is giving off a white glow, like all lightsabers. (glow wise) Also given the new lore behind how kyber crystals work, this...Tal Vizla must have been a pretty big badass, or a major snowflake to get a black one. (Or maybe its the perk of being the first Mando'a jedi)

Honestly I think your problem with the Dark Saber is just nitpicking. I personally love it.

Supermonaman

It casts a white glow as interactive lighting if you pay attention - Eric

Blind Wave

The darksaber creates some logical problems stemming mostly in my eyes from the fact that light can not be black. Black is the absence of light, so it raises questions about how something like that can even have a glow, let alone even be possible at all. You need to suspend you disbelief a bit more than usual... but this is Star Wars, nothing in it obeys the laws of physics.

I agree with k9commander and Matthew Thacker that it's the energy field around the blade that gives off the glow, not the black blade itself. Think about what a lightsaber is: it's a stream of plasma held in place by a force field of some kind (probably magnetic, as you mentioned in this episode). That means that the glow of a lightsaber actually comes from two sources: the superheated plasma and the field that contains it. In the Dark Saber, the field is still glowing but the plasma core is not, for some reason. Perhaps its glow is in the infrared or ultraviolet, or perhaps the field is such that it does not allow any light to escape. If it's the first option (the blade glows at an invisible frequency) it could have interesting implications for the temperature of the blade (infrared = not as hot, ultraviolet = hotter than a normal lightsaber).

Lincoln Ward

That said, I don't like the entire design of it. The way the lightsaber effects are in rebels doesn't help. If it was a regular saber with the same effect instead of a sword blade, I'd probably love it, for now no opinion

DanceSnapple

It's actually been discovered that the hottest temperature's possible aren't visible, as such, the hottest fires in the universe aren't on the vsible light spectrum and WOULD be black to our eyes,, and as the "Light" passes away from it and cools, it would become visible, becoming white, then blue, then yellow, then red, etc etc I may mess up the order. However, your statement of "Black giving off white light" being impossible in real life is actually quite possible, especially with a weapon that's supposedly more powerful in concept since it would have to be to be possible.

DanceSnapple

Well, as Dave Filoni has said, Pre Viszla was supposed to wield a vibro-blade in Clone Wars. However, Vibro-blades can't stop lightsabers and George wanted him to be able to fight Jedi and Maul, so he created the Dark Saber. That is the reason it looks like that. It is based on a Vibro-Blade. They did not really have a backstory for it at the time. However, now they do have a story, do you realize how important a mandalorian jedi is? In the old expanded universe and even in the new canon, the only entity more opposed to jedi than mandalorians were the sith in terms of ideology. You can't be both a true mandalorian and a jedi. You have to make a choice(confirmed by pablo Hidalgo). The Dark Saber is, in my eyes, a Mandalorian Excalibur. The design itself is ancient, i can live with that explanation. Just like how they explained that the crossgaurd lightsaber was ancient as well. Side note, but Rebels Recon on the Star Wars Youtube channel is loaded with extra info from Dave and Pablo Hidalgo, its a must watch for fans of Star Wars(a lot of the questions you guys ask get answered on that show, you should react to them). Also, Pablo said on twitter that we will learn why a Jedi had a Black Kyber Crystal. The new lore about how all Kyber Crystals are clear as ice until they encounter the wielder they were meant for is cool (that is why the Jedi used Illum, the crystals were impossible to see in the icey caves unless you found the one meant for you and its color appeared), and that Sith have red because they force the crystal to accept their will and, "the crystal bleeds." Ahsoka has white sabers because she purified an inquisitors bled crystals in her awesome novel. So im interested in how a Jedi got black crystals.

Trent Deuster

What you said

Steven

Well in the terms of the real world there is a lot of things/situations that darkness gives of light like a black hole gives off hawking radiation which is a particle/antiparticle escaping the black hole. Also eclipses are scenes of light passing or curving into the viewer's eyes which seems like darkness is giving off or has an aura of light. I personally don't exactly love the blade-ness of it but I like everything else about it so I personally like the saber.

Call me old fashioned but for me a light saber should be blue green or red. Something about that kinda of Blade seems out of place for the design to be effective saber weapon. Kinda seems like a saber a dark jedi on a lower level of ability would have used.

Skeletor

I like it because the white contrasts nicely to me of the darkness inside the blade to show off the black. Also imagine the effect is kinda like a field to around it.

Matthew Thacker

Eric keeps saying the black energy blade of the saber gives off a white light. I don't think it does. I think its the magnetic field surrounding the energy that gives off the light. I could be wrong, but that's how I see it.

k9commander

It has bugged me from the first time I saw it. I agree with Eric it's just not right.

The 16bit Couple

I don't mind the effect, it gives it an Old Republic black-core look, like a black-core white saber crystal. I especially like the lightning effects along the blade. What I don't like is the shape of the blade, it feels strange that the energy would be able to retain its knife-like shape. (the handle is also a bit square)

It makes it feel like it is old legendary, ancient, iconic, and unstable

The glow design of the Darksaber feels accurate for a weapon that is known as the Darksaber, at least in my opinion